You must have a 1.9 engine to get that far!  You certainly have taken
good care of it.  I got 220,000 out of my 1.9 before retiring it for
excessive oil consumption, but the heads were done twice.  It wasn't
leaking though, and there was no evidence of corrosion when I
disassembled it.

The reason I say do both is that you have to drain the coolant and
remove the entire exhaust system to get one head off.  After you have
done all that it doesn't take that much more time to pull the other head
and fix it too.   I think you also have to buy the gaskets as a set for
both sides, and they are not cheap.

You would really kick yourself if it started leaking on the other side
after a few thousand miles and spending several hundred dollars you
would have spend again.

John Smith wrote:
>
> Are you sure?  I've got my original engine in there (approx 240,000 miles),
> and I've never had the left side go bad... always the right.  Is this
> strange?  Am I just very very lucky?  I like to think I've taken pretty good
> care of my engine...
>

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Stuart MacMillan
Seattle

'84 Vanagon Westfalia w/2.1
'65 MGB (Daily driver since 1969)
'74 MGB GT (Restoring sloooowly)

Assisting on Restoration (and spending OPM):
'72 MGB GT (Daughter's)
'64 MGB (Son's)

Stripped and gone but their parts live on:
'68 MGB, '73 MGB, '67 MGB GT